Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1932, Page 7

DEMOGRATS SHAPE REPEAL PROPOSAL Amendment Restoring Sta‘e Control of Liguor Is Heart of Plank. By the Associated Press. Mindful of Republican pryaibition worries in Chicago, a group of Demo- cratic leaders here is shaping a repeal plank they confidently hope will win unqualified approval in the Windy City two weeks hence. It still is rough hewn. But in keep- ing with the desire to keep the entire 1932 platform under 1,000 words, this plank uses just a few more than 50 to dispose of the liquor issue. It deciares for “immediate submission to State conventions” of a repeal amend- ment. This amendment would be so drafted as to assure “State control of the manufacture and sale of intoxicat- ing liquors.” This principle—repeal of the eight- eenih amendment by an amendment re- storing State control—is the heart of the plank. About it are hung declara- tions for the promotion of temperance and the suppression of liquor traffic in States choosing to remain dry. The saloon is frowned upon in one-sentence, one-paragraph plank. But it leaves no doubt that return or ban- ishment of the saloon will be up to the States. No direct mention is made of beer or modification of the Volstead act. ‘Tacitly this problem is left to the Con- that will handle the job of draft- ng the repeal amendment The plank’s chief virtue, its authors claim, is the kindly reception it has been accorded by some party members of both wet and dry leanings. Those who have viewed it with approval in- clude a number of Senators who have been active for the dry cause in the past and are slated for important places at the Chicago meeting. INSURANCE DECREASES New Production for May Drops 22.5 Per Cent. NEW YORK. June 15 ().—New life insurance production for May totaled $760,127,000, compared with $980,346,- 000 during May, 1931, a decrease of 225 per cent the Association of Life Insurance Presidents has announced. For the first five months of the year the aggregate volume of new business was $4,249,688,000, against $4,833,485,000 in the same period last year, a decrease of 12.1 per cent. SEA CRASH DAMAGES SUB New Japanese Craft, E-4, Collides With Battleship. KURE, Japan, June 15 (#).—The new Japanese submarine, E-4, of 1955 tons and one of the newest and largest sub- marines afloat, was damaged today in a collision with the battleship Hyuga ;)n the inland sea of Yamaguchi Prefec- ure. The Hyuga was not damaged. There were no casualties. The E-4 was taken to the Kure naval collision. base after the Weeks in this | BY ELMER DAVIS. CHICAGO, June 15 (N.ANA)— Godfrey G. Gloom, the veteran Hoosier observer and Jeffersonian Democrat, was discovered by a reporter in a grill room across from the hall where the Repub- lican convention had just adjourned, with the organ playing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” “And that organist certainly chose the right selection,” sald Mr. Gloom. “For about 15 or 20 minutes this was one of the happlest days of my life, or leastways of the last three years. “You see, I happened to have stepped out into the lobby of the convention hall to buy a stogie when Senator Dick- when I got back to my seat I was a little confused as to what was going on. I sat down and I listened to this bell- mouthed orator from Iowa describing the happy situation of some country or other, under the guidance of a great executive, whom, as it happened, he didn't name for the first few minutes I happened to hear him. Enthralled! Enraptured “Believe me, my young friend, it was |a beautiful and beguiling picture he | painted. I shut my eyes and feasted | my ears while Dickinson went on telling | about this great executive who had pre- vented a catastrophe, averted a financial panic, put millions of men back | work and headed off a drop in agricul- | tural prices. “Whether this was a description of scme Eden of the past, or some Utopia | of the future, T did not know: but it | certainly sounded good as that leather- | lunged statesman boomed it out. And it was quite a while before it came to me with a sudden shock that he was talkin’' about the United States under the administration of Herbert Hoover. “Well, I suppose that was all right. One of my granddaughters a few years ago went to New York and married one of these younger literary critics, who has since returned home to Rising Sun, Ind, and accepted a position in his | father’s filling station. And he tells me that the hard times are goin’ to cre- ate a revival of a popular demand for romantic and imaginary literatur: | something that bears no relation to th sorrows of the present day. If that's the case, Dickinson's speech ought to | be the big best seller of 1932, for I have not heard anything so romantic and im- aginativé since the last time I was vis- ited by a high-pressure securities sales- man shortly before the crash. Grammar Criticized. | “But criticizin’ Dickinson's speech as ! a literary production, as I suppose we must, it seems to me he was guilty of mixin' metaphors. Pretty soon I hear | him mention Hoover by name as the captain who alone has demonstrated his | capacity to steer the economic ship into a safe harbor. As I remember Mr. Hoo- | ver's campaign speeches of 1928 his in- tentions were terrestial, not aquatic: he | promised to drive the new sedan into a two-car garage. I only hope he's better at findin’ harbor on a dark night than he was at locatin’ thac two-car garage we heard so much about back in those | owever,” continued Mr. Gloom, fin- Advance! REGULAR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE In the midst of sen authentic reductions story. satiomal sales, these tell their own ENTIRE STOCK OF Spring Suits Including 2 Fruhauf’s 1% Lowest Former Price This Year Was $25 y 9? Lowest Former Price This Year Was $35 - 95." Lowest Former Price This Year Was $50 All of our select, hi ghest quality regular merchandise at these economical prices. Full range of sizes. Evgry suit the most desirable type—mostly year-round weight. Tropicals Not Included—All Sales Final ALTERATIONS AT COST Sidney West, Inc. Lth & G Sts. N.W. EUGENE C. GOTT, President; inson started his ‘keynote speech, s0| THE EVENING “Happy Days Are Here Again” And Hoo-r-a-y! Says Godfrey G. Gloom, but He Is Somewhat Puzzled W hether Keynoter Pictured Some Eden of the Past or Some Utopia of the Future. ishing his coffee and reaching for his gold-mounted quill toothpick, “Dickin- son showed a very commendable degree of courage. Ever since I got here I've been wanderin’ what the Republicans are goin’ to point to with pride this year. But Dickinson—he knew all the time. He pointed with pride to every- thing, even the Farm rd and the fact that the Hoover administration has managed to put more men in jail than were ever in jail before. Some of 'em were even Mr. Hoover's old lodge broth- ers from the Harding cabinet, though Dickinson forgot to mention that. Awarded Blue Ribbon. “When a man says that if it wasn't for us Republicans you fellows that are working three days a week wouldn't be working at all, you can give him the blue ribbon as the champion pride- pointer of the United States.” “What do you think the effect of the speech will be?” the reporter asked. “Hard to sa replied Mr. Glool thoughtfully. “Of course, we saw its immediate effect. It caused such a buzz of conversation and movement among the alleged listeners that Mr. Fess had to pound his gavel and ask everybody else to keep still so we could hear the keynoter. And considerjn’ that the hall was three-quarters empty, I think Dickinson did pretty well in | inspiring his hearers to make that | much noise. I don't deny that some of | his remarks hit the Democrats pretty | hard. What Dickinson had to fay about the votes of Democratic: Senators on | the tariff is goin’ to be pretty hard for | Senator Barkley to answer when he gets | up to keynote on the same spot a week | from next Monday. Voting as They Shot. “And Dickinson was powerful, too, in his denunciation of free silver and quo- tation from the Republican platform of |1896,” went on Mr. Gloom. “If the | Democrats nominate Bryan again, you | can set Dickinson down as a good key- noter. But the news that Bryan fis dead must have percolated even to | those Democrats who are still, as a friend of mine in the press gallery put |1t, votin' the way they shot at the | Battle of the Boyne. Anyway, you got | to give Dickinson this much credit: 1he there was one, was an appeal to fear, |and certainly there is an awful lot of fear to appeal to this Summel “However,” said the reporter, “you must admit that the convention showed a good deal of enthusiasm when Sena- tor Dickinson first mentioned Hoover's name.” ‘So I hear,” said Mr. Gloom. *“I hear they shouted and yelled and stamped their feet, and a friend of | whole point of his speech, in so far as | STAR, WASHINGTON, mine in the press gallery tells me he sees William M. Butier's fingers gently tappin’ the railing in what must be set down an unrestrained excitement for an old college man. Unless these old ears of mine are growing deaf. there was no mention in that speech of Coolidge prosperity, or the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Ale: ander Hamilton. But maybe that w Just an oversight on Dickinson's part. Anyway, it's a relief to have the convention opened in due and ancient form. We got a temporary chairman and tomorrow we get a permanent chairman and we don't have to suffer any more from the ministrations of Senator Fess, who is the kind of chair- man_that can't even make 'em keep the floor lights turped off after he tells em to in ijrate tches, carried on the ether clear around the world.” i In private,” the reporter ventured, a great many of the delegates ex- press great dissatisfaction with Presi- dent Hoover. Do you think—" France Delegate Reported Shot. “I don't think what Republicans say |in private matters much,” Mr. Gloom interrupted, “unless they say it in a smoke-filled room. Here's former Sen- ator France of Maryland claimin’ that 230 delegates are pledged to him for | President and I hear he can’t find a | single one of 'em willing to get up and nominate him. It is rumored that a {man wearing a Prance-for-President | button was shot yesterday on Madison street, but it is believed by naturalists | that he was just starting on his south- ward migration in anticipation of an early frost.” “Still,” observed the reporter, “you hear it said that Coolidge’s name was deliberately omitted from the keynote for fear it would set off a demonstr: |tion. Don't you find a good deal of sentiment among the delegates in favor |of a distinguished Republican former | President?” g “I certainly do,” Mr. Gloom agreed. | “From their behavior of this mornin’ 1 think they could easily be stampeded for Abraham Lincoln. But I don’t know | that Lincoln could qualify. even if he was alive today. So far as T am familiar | with the public utterances of the Great Emancipator. he never told a waiting | in the increase of brokers' loans (Copyright. 1932. by tae North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) $300,000 GEM THEFT SUSPECT FATALLY SHOT Gang Member Accused in Glemby Robbery in New York Is Victim. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 15. | 1ito, 30, who, police said, wi | of 2 gang which stole more than $300,- 000 worth of jewels from Mrs. Harry C, Glemby, was found fatally wounded in lan apartment in West Fifty-fourth | street last night. He had been shot | through the head. The apartment was leased by a Helen | Smith, who, police said, was a member wasn't there at the moment. but I|cf the gang. She and another woman | and three men were arrested and most of the $305,105 loot was recovered. all nation that there was nothing alarming D. C, Wi.DNESDAY MODERATES RULE b. 0. P. CONVENTION Defeat Is Predicted for Ex- treme Wets in Fight on Their Plank. BY MARK SULLIVAN. CHICAGO, June 14 —Forty-eight men spent last night in a room trying to solve the most difficult problem before the convention and before the country, namely just what step to take about prohibitio The 48 are a high cross-section of Ameri life. T come one from each State. They are chosen in this way: The delegates from each State | hoid a meeting and pick one of their number to be the State’s member of the | Committee on Resolutions. The men thus chosen are as a rule the best in the delegations, for everybody realizes their work is at once difficult and im- portant. One of the wisest and sanest and most characteristically American is |Jay N. Darling of Des Moines, Iows, | who is affectionately known to millions | of Americans who get humor and wis- dom out of his cartoons signed “Ding.” | Another is Ogden L. Mills, Secretary | of the Treasury. Another is Arthur M. | Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture. who was | chosen by the Missouri delegates in preference to a member of a cabinet of 20 years ago, Charles Nagel. Another member of this Resolutions Committee is ex-Gov. Samuel McKelvie of Ne- braska. Pennsylvania's member is Sen- ator David A. Reed, although Mr. Reed cannot leave Washington. These 48 are as representative of a high type of average American opinion 2s can readily be brought together. Three Shades of Opinion. Their broad function is to write the | platform, that is, the actions about public affairs which this convention will recommend to the country and upon which the Republican party will stand. Within this broad function, the most controversial duty of the committee is to write the plank about prohibition. ‘Within the Resolutions Committee and also within the convention as a whole and in the country there are three shades of opinion. One is the bone- drys. These cut comparatively little figure. Hardly any dry insists on mere- ly standing pat. Probably there will not | . Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1';c per day and 5¢ Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephcne Nationai 5000 and de- livery will start at once. AT GEORGES 2 BIG STORES Mover Beleve. SuchValue/ Such Performance/ ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS Eight new models, three porcelain. Let us show you today, the one best suited for your needs. Prices start at Pictured are a few of many features—standard in all Leon- ard mode! which make the new Leonard Electric an out- standing refrig valu, Some of Len-A-Dor, Leonard; while others are found only in larger, more expensive refrigerators. Leonard alone has them all. The: which Leon: -d is able to offer at no extra cost, as a result of more than half a century of household refrigeration experi- ence. Just a touch of the toe and the door swings open BUY NOW! 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Garfleld Speaks for Moderates. The third group in the Committee on Resolutions and in the convention | a5 & whole are the moderates. The | moderates now include most of the drys. ‘Their principal spokesman is James R. Garfleld, son of a former President and member of Theodore | olutions. The wet plank outlined above will be recommended by a minority. Between the two there will be debate and then probably some time Thursday a roll call. There will be a roll call because wet Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler, president of Columbia University, demands a roll call. He will get the roll call and he will be defeated. A ma- Jority of the convention is moderate or . As it now seems the moderate plank will be adopted. In the moder- ate plank the word “immediately” or “promptly” will have some importance. ‘The moderates believe the change to a new status of prohibition should be | brougnt about speedily. P.-T. A. 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These | Bladensburg Junior High School Par-|the United States Chamber of Com- moderates will write the majority plank | on prolbition. Tt will begin by ad- | mitting in effect that the eighteenth ' amendment has not worked well, It will admit completely the right of the | people to pass upon the eighteenth | amendment. It will recommend that ! Congress set in motion the machinery | by which the people can pass upon the | eighteenth amendment. The majority | plank will probably admit the right of | any States to be wet if and when a ma- | Jority of the people of such States say | they want to be wet. They will admit the right of wet States to do their own | regulating of liquor subject to the lim- itation that dry States shall be protect- ed in their dryness. This is a large | concession to the wets. It is about all that most of the wets were asking a | ! few weeks ago. 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